Barghouti’s wife, Palestinian ministry hail jailed leader after Ben-Gvir’s taunting visit
As we reported earlier, Palestinian officials have been condemning far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s taunting visit to the jail cell of long-imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
His wife, Fawda, has said Barghouti and other Palestinian prisoners are subjected to many hardships behind Israeli bars.
“They are still, Marwan, chasing you and pursuing you even in the solitary cell you’ve been living in for two years, and the struggle of the occupation and its figures with you continues. The shackles are on your hands, but I know your spirit and determination, and I know you will remain free, free, free,” she wrote in a post on Facebook.
“I know that the only thing that can shake you is what you hear about your people’s pain, and the only thing that crushes and wounds you is the failure to protect our sons and daughters. You are of the people; wherever you are among the people, you are one of them and part of them.”
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry also released a statement to say it considers the Ben-Gvir visit “an unprecedented provocation and organised state terrorism, falling within the framework of the crimes of genocide, displacement, and annexation faced by the prisoners and our people”.
BREAKING: Surrounded by guards and cameras, Israel’s extremist minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the solitary confinement cell of Marwan Barghouti — the most popular Palestinian political leader and a unifying national figure, imprisoned since 2002 — in “Ganot” prison, to threaten… https://t.co/Bnbik6IJaP pic.twitter.com/53p5lIJKAz
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It has the opposite effect anyway. Signalling to Barghouti that Israel is getting more desperate. Plus now it's all over the news.
